Everton boss Roberto Martinez has stressed in the wake of Swansea counterpart Garry Monk's recent comments on referees that there is no point moaning about decisions.

Martinez has also defended Professional Game Match Officials Limited general manager Mike Riley and the standard of refereeing in English football, describing it as "very strong".

Monk has made headlines of late with some forthright views on decisions against his team, most notably Michael Oliver's call to award Stoke a penalty when Victor Moses went to ground in the Swans' 2-1 Barclays Premier League defeat at the Britannia Stadium on October 19.

The Football Association has decided not to take any further action against Monk having asked him "for his observations" after he launched a post-match tirade against Oliver, Moses and Riley, who he is set to meet this week.

Monk was left fuming again on Tuesday by a red card for Swansea defender Federico Fernandez - which the Welsh club have subsequently appealed - in a 2-1 Capital One Cup loss at Liverpool, although he did say while complaining after the game: "What is the point?"

And when asked on Thursday if he thought moaning about referees' decisions got you anywhere, Martinez, whose side host Swansea in the Premier League on Saturday, said: "I think it makes you feel better, but I don't think it gets you anything at all.

"Football is a game of errors, and sometimes you get those errors in your favour or against you, and that is part of the game."

In his comments after the Stoke match, Monk accused Riley of "poor leadership".

But on his own experience of Riley, Martinez said: "Mike is always there to cope with any sort of enquiries and I've seen a real professional side from him."

The Spaniard - who both played alongside Monk and managed him at Swansea - added: "I've never, ever seen a team that always get bad decisions, or that always gets good ones.

"In general, everything levels up over the course of a season, and we are quite fortunate with our refereeing standards in our leagues - we shouldn't lose sight of that.

"I'm looking at other leagues around the world and they would love to have the standards we have here. I think the level of our refereeing system here is very strong."

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Steven Naismith scores Everton’s third goal in the Europa League win over Lille

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Leon Osman and Phil Jagielka got the other goals

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Jonjo Shelvey walks off the Goodison Park pitch after being shown a red card

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Steven Naismith claims he is being fouled by Sung Yueng Ki

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Wayne Routledge looks to give Swansea the lead

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Members of the armed forces honour the minute's silence ahead of kick-off

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Samuel Eto'o celebrates his second goal of the game

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Samuel Eto'o nets his second of the game

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Romelu Lukaku celebrates after giving Everton back the lead

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Danny Ings celebrates his equaliser

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Danny Ings scores his first Premier League goal to bring Burnley level

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Samuel Eto'o celebrates his goal

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Samuel Eto'o heads the Toffees in front

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Seamus Coleman taps in the home side's third goal

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Romelu Lukaku celebrates his goal which doubles Everton's lead

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Ross Barkley in action for Everton on his comeback from injury

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Phil Jagielka opens the scoring for the Toffees

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Samuel Eto'o, a free transfer after being released by Chelsea in the summer, pulled Everton back into the tie with a 82nd minute equaliser.

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Russian soldiers were out in force to support Krasnodar.

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Krasnodar took the lead on the stroke of half-time through da Silva Ferreira - much to the dismay of the Toffees' following.

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It proved to be a frustrating evening for Roberto Matinez's men.

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Phil Jagielka stunned Anfield with a sensational half-volley from 30 yards to earn the Toffees a point

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Liverpool captain scored a brilliant free-kick to put the Reds in front at Anfield

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Gerrard celebrates with Liverpool players after his goal

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Tony Hibbert (right) performed well in his first start for Everton since December 2012

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Gylfi Sigurdsson (pictured) scored the second Swansea goal against Everton before Emnes got the last in this Capital One Cup third round tie

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Palace's win was their first under Neil Warnock in his second spell

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Yannick Bolasie celebrates after scoring Crystal Palace's third

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Campbell was on target for Palace's second

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Lukaku wheels away after putting Everton in front

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Tim Howard of Everton and James McCarthy of Everton collide

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Ivica Olic of VfL Wolfsburg is closed down by John Stones (left) of Everton and Seamus Coleman (right)

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Leighton Baines (No 3) celebrates his goal with Steven Naismith

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The Toffees go ahead after just two minutes through their record signing, Belgian international Romelu Lukaku.

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Everton manager Roberto Matinez was keen to see an improved defensive performance at West Brom after watching his side concede six against Chelsea before the international break.

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Diego Costa finishes off the scoring

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Ramires scores Chelsea's fifth

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Nemanja Matic celebrates his goal

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Steven Naismith grabs a goal for the Toffees

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Eden Hazard forces Seamus Coleman into an own goal

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Kevin Mirallas celebrates after getting a goal back for the Toffees

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Branislav Ivanovic celebrates after doubling the away side's lead

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Diego Costa celebrates after opening the scoring

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Steven Pienaar picked up an injury just 10 minutes into the match at Goodison Park

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Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has an early strike at goal for the visiting team but it went over

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Alexis Sanchez wriggles his way past Kevin Mirallas - but the £35m Chilean struggled and was withdrawn at half-time

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Arsenal players Aaron Ramsey, Mathieu Flamini and Per Mertesacker are dejected after Seamus Coleman made it 1-0

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Steven Naismith fires his second goal in two matches past Wojciech Szczesny right on the stroke of half-time to put Everton two in front

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Aaron Ramsey pulls a late goal back to begin the Arsenal comeback

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Olivier Giroud celebrates after his late goal saved Arsenal a point at Goodison Park

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The King Power Stadium was packed as Leicester City returned to the Premier League for the first time since the 2003-04 season - Leicester came up as Champions with 102 points last season

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Filbert Fox prepares for kick off as Leicester City returned to the top flight

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Leicester's Anthony Knockaert battles with South African winger Steven Pienaar down the right hand side

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Irish winger Aiden McGeady wraps his right foot around the ball to make it 1-0 to Everton after 20minutes

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It was McGeady's first goal for his new club since moving to Merseyside in January from Spartak Moscow

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£28m Everton striker Romelu Lukaku chases Riyad Mahrez on his first start for the club since making his move permanent

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Steven Naismith celebrates after putting the visitors back in the lead

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New Leicester striker Leonardo Ulloa, a £7m signing from Brighton, scored on his Premier League debut, firing past Tim Howard to make it 1-1

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Substitute Chris Wood came off the bench to score a late equaliser for newly promoted Leicester City

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Ninth-placed Everton go into Saturday's clash against sixth-placed Swansea with their season starting to come together results-wise after a shaky start to the campaign, and their veteran frontman Samuel Eto'o is in fine form.

The Toffees have lost just one of their last six games in all competitions, and last weekend's 3-1 win at Burnley made it back-to-back top-flight victories for the first time this term.

Eto'o scored twice in that match, has netted three times in his last four appearances and has a tally of four goals in total since joining the Merseysiders over the summer.

Fellow striker Romelu Lukaku - also a scorer against Burnley, and with four goals this season - has spoken of feeling "blessed" to be working with the 33-year-old Cameroonian.

And Martinez said of Eto'o: "To have Samuel at our football club is like a gift from the footballing gods.

"It is important we give him the right amount of playing time.

"But Samuel's performance on Sunday, and every role he has had so far, has been of a real high standard and I'm really excited to see how well he can adapt in the second half of the season.

"His experience and know-how have already been very important - in Europe, for example. But with the finishes against Burnley, it looked like the old good times of Samuel Eto'o."

Martinez said the knocks Lukaku sustained against Burnley and midfielder Darron Gibson picked up in training should not affect their availability for Saturday.

Winger Kevin Mirallas (hamstring) and defender John Stones (ankle) remain out of contention, while full-back Bryan Oviedo and forward Arouna Kone are set to play in a "practice" game next week as they continue to work their way towards first-team action.